Philosophical movie quotes

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.

We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

God doesn't move us by telling us the facts. He moves us by pains and contradictions. He's given me a lack of understanding: not answers, but questions. An invitation to marvel.

Don't be afraid of death... but rather the unlived life.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essentials facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?

What we do in life echoes in eternity.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief; So dawn goes down to day, Nothing gold can stay.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main ... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind. And therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for Thee.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

If you had a chance to change your fate, would you?

Without leaving your home, you can know the whole world. Without looking through the window, you can see the ways of heaven. The further you go, the less you know. Thus the wise man knows without traveling, Sees without looking, Works without doing.

Does this unit have a soul?

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.

Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment when love begins but we always know when it ends?

I am part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in the stones, and good in every thing.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

What are we doing here, that is the question.